usr.bin/make Use .Nm without args and remove unnessidary Ns macros in make.1

Max Okumoto okumoto at ucsd.edu
Thu Dec 2 05:14:27 PST 2004


The `.Nm' macro is used for the document title or subject name.  It
has the peculiarity of remembering the first argument it was called
with, which should always be the subject name of the page.  When
called without arguments, `.Nm' regurgitates this initial name for
the sole purpose of making less work for the author.
				Max
diff -ru  dfly-src/make/make.1 fbsd-src/make/make.1
--- make.1.orig	Thu Dec  2 05:06:33 2004
+++ make.1	Thu Dec  2 05:06:31 2004
@@ -539,8 +539,9 @@
 .Nm Ns 's
 command line.
 .Pp
-.Nm Make
-sets
+The
+.Nm
+utility sets
 .Va .OBJDIR
 to the canonical path given by
 .Xr getcwd 3 .
@@ -696,7 +697,7 @@
 .It Cm Q
 Quotes every shell meta-character in the variable, so that it can be passed
 safely through recursive invocations of
-.Nm Ns .
+.Nm .
 .It Cm R
 Replaces each word in the variable with everything but its suffix.
 .Sm off
@@ -772,7 +773,7 @@
 .Sh DIRECTIVES, CONDITIONALS, AND FOR LOOPS
 Directives, conditionals, and for loops reminiscent
 of the C programming language are provided in
-.Nm Ns .
+.Nm .
 All such structures are identified by a line beginning with a single
 dot
 .Pq Ql \&.
@@ -1234,7 +1235,7 @@
 command in the file.
 .It Ic .SUFFIXES
 Each source specifies a suffix to
-.Nm Ns .
+.Nm .
 If no sources are specified, any previous specified suffices are deleted.
 .El
 .Sh COMPATIBILITY




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